The US Flag: The Old Glory (доблесть прошлого). Names: the Stars and Stripes, the...
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The US Flag: The Old Glory (доблесть прошлого)
The US Flag: The Old Glory (доблесть прошлого). Names: the Stars and Stripes, the Starry Banner Stars: heavens and the divine goal to which man aspires
Names: the Stars and Stripes, the Starry Banner Stars: heavens
and the divine goal to which man aspires Stripes: a ray of the
Sun
Slide 3
The name Old Glory was first applied to the flag by a young sea
captain William Driver, who lived in Salem, Massachusetts. On his
21 st birthday he was presented it by his mother and some ladies
from his native town. It was a large flag, measuring 10 feet by 17
feet, heavily constructed and designed to be flown from a ship's
mast. It originally had 24 stars and, symbolic of its nautical
purpose, included a small anchor sewn in the corner of its blue
canton. He was delighted with a gift and named it Old Glory. Then
the flag accompanied him on his voyages.
Slide 4
Captain Driver quit the sea in 1837. Since then the flag was
proudly shown above his house, hidden from the Union soldiers,
sawed in a comforter, and raised at the capitol building in
1862.
Slide 5
Before his death conveyed the flag to his daughter to love and
cherish it as he did. The flag remained in the Driver family until
1922. Then it was sent to the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, where it is preserved under glass today.
Slide 6
Other versions of the flag: Continental Colors (Grand Union
Flag, the Congress flag, the First Navy Ensign, the Cambridge
Flag), 1776 unofficial version. It was used by the American
Continental forces as a naval ensign and garrison flag in 1776 and
early 1777. The Betsy Ross flag is an early design of the flag of
the United States popularly attributed to Betsy Ross using the
common motives of alternating red-and-white striped field with
white stars in a blue canton. The flag was designed during the
American Revolution and features 13 stars to represent the original
13 colonies. The distinctive feature of the Ross flag is the
arrangement of the five-pointed stars in a circle. (1774)